Holiday Season Must: Billy Mack (Bill Nighy): Hiya kids. Here is an important message from your Uncle Bill. Become a pop star, and they give you them for free! - Love Actually directed by Richard Curtis

Richard Curtis discusses style, inspiration and creative control in this Screenwriters' Lecture from

Which British Film Should You Watch This Christmas?

It's not Christmas without a Brit flick from the man who has romanticised the UK (and London in particular) for the last 20 years. From Four Weddings and a Funeral to Love Actually, Richard Curtis is the man behind some of our favourite British-made

banjaxed adj. British, Ireland, slang Broken, ruined, shattered; confounded. adj. British, Ireland, slang Tired, sleepy, cream crackered. [I've only ever seen this word in print twice. Terry Wogan called a book of his "Banjaxed' in the 1970s/80s (I think the word, like Sir Terry, is Irish). Then Richard Curtis used it in the introduction to the film script for 'Notting Hill'. It's a great word.]